Solve : desktop freezes about 5 minutes after booting up?

1.	Solve : desktop freezes about 5 minutes after booting up?
Answer» Desktop operates normally for about 5 minutes and then freezes. Cursor moves freely but there is no response when clicking on anything. Can't get task manager. Won't respond to any function keys. After pulling plug unit boots and operates normally and doesn't freeze again. Next day same thing happens.1. Try going into safemode if it also freezes. If it still freezes: 2. Make sure your computer(CPU) is free from dust or dirt. 3. Try to disconnect/reconnect RAM while computer is off and unplug. Check also the connection for your hard drive (connect/reconnect) if its loose. What happens in safe mode?Thanks. Opened unit in safe mode. Neither firefox nor internet explorer would let me get on internet. However, unit operated normally otherwise, with no problems using a variety of non-web based utilities. So, rebooted in normal mode. Worked successfully on non-web activities for about 20 minutes. Then pulled up firefox and had no problems with web activities for another 20 minutes! Rebooted normal mode and immediately opened firefox, as I usually do. No problems! This is weird! Can't believe that opening in safe mode that one time FIXED anything. Any thoughts on this?It didn't. Something that's loading with your system is probably causing the issue. You might want to DOWNLOAD and run Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel and disable all startup items, then reboot and see if the problem recurs. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtmltry memtest to check you RAM for any issue. perform scandisk with repair option (chkdsk /r) to check your HDD, it may be developing bad sectors. Quote from: jaydeee on July 09, 2010, 01:16:00 PM try memtest to check you RAM for any issue. perform scandisk with repair option (chkdsk /r) to check your HDD, it may be developing bad sectors. 1) If it was ram the problem would also be present in safe mode 2) Bad sectors wouldn't cause this problem 3) There is no scandisk with XP 4) If you are going to run chkdsk /r then it should be run from the recovery consoleThanks, Allan. Went to msconfig/startup and disabled all startups last night. Booted this AM and unit ran all day with no problems. If same thing happens tomorrow I guess I'll have to selectively remove start-ups until I locate the bad one. Will Lin's program help me do that? Also, why does the unit freeze about 5 min after all the startups seem to have loaded? And, why does problem go away for the rest of the day after I pull plug and reboot? Why doesn't it COME back when I reboot? Wierd, no? Thanks again - PaulUsing Startup Control Panel, start adding items back one or two at a time, rebooting after each, until the problem returns. Then post the name of the offending startup item and let's see if we can figure out why it's causing the problem. Allan - thanks again for your help. The startup RTHDCPL seems to be the culprit, although it does not consistently cause the problem. When I booted up first time this AM I had only 4 startup items enabled: AVGTRAY(antivirus); FirewallGUI; Clavier(a text storage routine that I've used for years on several computers); RTHDCPL ( a control panel prebundled by Dell for the Realtek HD audio control). System froze up after about 5 minutes of use. I pulled plug and booted up again and had no problems after that. Yesterday AM I booted up with the first 3 items enabled and RTHDCPL disabled. There was no freeze up at all. Not obvious to me why RTHDCPL should be causing this problem. Any ideas? However, I never use this item so I INTEND to leave it disabled permanently. This was a very useful exercise since I wound up eliminating about 10 other startups which are completely unnecessary for me. Regards - PaulNo idea at all. I guess it's for the same reason some people are allergic to certain foods and others aren't. As long as everything is good now, let's not worry about it. Thanks for the follow up.

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Desktop operates normally for about 5 minutes and then freezes. Cursor moves freely but there is no response when clicking on anything. Can't get task manager. Won't respond to any function keys. After pulling plug unit boots and operates normally and doesn't freeze again. Next day same thing happens.1. Try going into safemode if it also freezes.
If it still freezes:
2. Make sure your computer(CPU) is free from dust or dirt.
3. Try to disconnect/reconnect RAM while computer is off and unplug.
Check also the connection for your hard drive (connect/reconnect) if its loose. What happens in safe mode?Thanks. Opened unit in safe mode. Neither firefox nor internet explorer would let me get on internet. However, unit operated normally otherwise, with no problems using a variety of non-web based utilities. So, rebooted in normal mode. Worked successfully on non-web activities for about 20 minutes. Then pulled up firefox and had no problems with web activities for another 20 minutes!
Rebooted normal mode and immediately opened firefox, as I usually do. No problems!
This is weird! Can't believe that opening in safe mode that one time FIXED anything.
Any thoughts on this?It didn't. Something that's loading with your system is probably causing the issue. You might want to DOWNLOAD and run Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel and disable all startup items, then reboot and see if the problem recurs.
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtmltry memtest to check you RAM for any issue.
perform scandisk with repair option (chkdsk /r) to check your HDD, it may be developing bad sectors.

Quote from: jaydeee on July 09, 2010, 01:16:00 PM

try memtest to check you RAM for any issue.
perform scandisk with repair option (chkdsk /r) to check your HDD, it may be developing bad sectors.

1) If it was ram the problem would also be present in safe mode
2) Bad sectors wouldn't cause this problem
3) There is no scandisk with XP
4) If you are going to run chkdsk /r then it should be run from the recovery consoleThanks, Allan. Went to msconfig/startup and disabled all startups last night. Booted this AM and unit ran all day with no problems. If same thing happens tomorrow I guess I'll have to selectively remove start-ups until I locate the bad one. Will Lin's program help me do that?
Also, why does the unit freeze about 5 min after all the startups seem to have loaded? And, why does problem go away for the rest of the day after I pull plug and reboot? Why doesn't it COME back when I reboot? Wierd, no?
Thanks again - PaulUsing Startup Control Panel, start adding items back one or two at a time, rebooting after each, until the problem returns. Then post the name of the offending startup item and let's see if we can figure out why it's causing the problem.
Allan - thanks again for your help. The startup RTHDCPL seems to be the culprit, although it does not consistently cause the problem. When I booted up first time this AM I had only 4 startup items enabled: AVGTRAY(antivirus); FirewallGUI; Clavier(a text storage routine that I've used for years on several computers); RTHDCPL ( a control panel prebundled by Dell for the Realtek HD audio control). System froze up after about 5 minutes of use. I pulled plug and booted up again and had no problems after that.

Yesterday AM I booted up with the first 3 items enabled and RTHDCPL disabled. There was no freeze up at all.

Not obvious to me why RTHDCPL should be causing this problem. Any ideas? However, I never use this item so I INTEND to leave it disabled permanently. This was a very useful exercise since I wound up eliminating about 10 other startups which are completely unnecessary for me.

Regards - PaulNo idea at all. I guess it's for the same reason some people are allergic to certain foods and others aren't. As long as everything is good now, let's not worry about it. Thanks for the follow up.

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